venerdì 30 aprile 2021

Fix your hearts or die

 "Ideas are so beautiful and they're so abstract.

And they do exist someplace.

I don't know if there's a name for it. 

And I believe they exist, like fish. 

And I believe that if you sit quietly, like you're fishing, you will catch ideas. 

The real, you know, beautiful, big ones swim kinda deep down there so you have to be very quiet and, you know, wait for them to come along.

If you catch an idea, you know, any idea, [...] it wasn't there, and then it's there! 

It might just be a small fragment of, like I say, a feature film, or a song, or a lyric, or whatever, but you gotta write that idea down right away. 

And as you're writing, sometimes it's amazing how much comes out, you know, from that one flash.

So, you get an idea and it's like a seed. 

And in your mind the idea is seen and felt, and it explodes like it's got electricity and light connected to it. And it has all the images and the feeling.

And it's like in an instant you know the idea. In an instant.

Then, the thing is translating that to some medium. It could be a film idea or a painting idea or a furniture idea, it doesn't matter.

It wants to be something. It's a seed for something. 

So, the whole thing is translating that idea to a medium. And in the case of film, it takes a long time and you always need to go back and stay true to that idea. 

[...] The film is the thing. You work so hard, you know, after the ideas come, to get this thing built, all the elements to feel correct, the whole to feel correct, in this beautiful language called cinema."

(David Lynch)

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